[Fedora-legal-list] Fedora and MS-PL (Dynamic Language Runtime)

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Sun Aug 16 02:45:17 UTC 2009


On 08/15/2009 06:57 PM, Jimmy Schementi wrote:
> For what it's worth, IronRuby, IronPython, and the DLR are licensed under the "Microsoft Public License", which is OSI approved:
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html
> 
> IronRuby is not associated with the "Microsoft Shared Source License".

Yes, I do understand that part. :) I was simply correcting the point
that the MS Shared Source License was in any way acceptable for Fedora
(it is not).

The MS Public License is acceptable for Fedora, Free but GPL
incompatible. I'm adding it to the table now.

~tom




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